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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 3536104" data-attributes="member: 44288">Sir, I would love to be able to tell you what you want to know but I stopped buying and looking at detectors when I bought my machine in 2005.  I like it because it has features I can tweak in the programming.  It took me over a year to read books about detecting, and with my detector in particular, and a lot of adjusting and trying other people's programs. So, this, is my answer.If you want to be able to turn it on and go with preset programs, get one of those. If you really want to get into the hobby, get a machine that will allow you to adjust it's features and you will enjoy it much more because now you have the knowledge of what your machine is actually saying to you. My XLT is old but it has a lot of features I could not do without on another machine.  It has different pitched sounds for different metals.  A penny sounds waaaay different from a quarter and you can tell a silver quarter from a clad just by the sound.  I have heard a dollar sound a few times and about 80% of the time it's a clad or silver dollar.  One time it was four quarters in the same hole!  Ha.  It has a pinpoint feature again with sound that gets higher pitched the closer you get to the target while at the same time showing you it's approximate depth.It even has a "learn mode" where you can present a like item such as an earring and shut off all other metals and just look for that item.  I have found a lot of people's lost stuff for them with this.</blockquote>

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